HEAVY METAL VESTS

I am in the process of working on a photography book about Heavy Metal culture and the "battle vest". This is a small in-progress edit. Book release information coming soon.

Jake Rogers from Visigoth

Latvian Metal Kids

Fenriz of Darkthrone in Bergen, Norway

Keep it True festival. Germany

Keep it True audience

LA Crew

Satanik Grizzly from Hellhunter

Tommy Ferguson

Eduardo from Colombia

Josh in LA

Thrashed 2 Death

I Am Super Natural - MDF 2015

WOLVES

This is a small preview of an in-progress project about the Wolves of Vinland, who are a "tribe of folkish heathens" with chapters in Cascadia (OR/WA), Appalachia (VA), and Windborn (WY/CO).

Much more to come soon.

Grimnir preparing ritual ash

“Wotan Mit Uns” (Odin With Us). The horgr (altar) of the Cascadian Wolves in the distance

Vegtam

Raised by Wolves

Afi crosses a frozen lake in Cascadia

Ofnir performing an initiation ritual in a cave

Brotherhood

Vegtam Takes the Oath

Finnulfr & Sonny

Invoking Thor the Destroyer

Baldr's Funeral

Rolling in Cascadia's Back Woods Boxing Ring

Odin is known as “the hanged god,” symbolized here by the noose. In the distance, the runes OAT TH, used to represent the tactical virtues Strength, Courage, Mastery and Honor

Wolves in the Newly Built Hall

Youthful Magic

Before the blót

All Life Comes From Death

Solemn Respect for the Death of an Animal

Ritual Galdr For Sacrifice

Reddening the Cuts with the Might of Slaughter

Prospect Prepares Animal

Vargr's Vegvisir (Icelandic magical stave)

Preparing the Feast

Paul Waggener (Grimnir) Performing with Fellow Wolves

Hearing the natural world

Midnight in Cascadia

The Fire of Windborn

SCANDINAVIAN DANSEBANDS

These photos are part of an in-progress work on rural Scandinavia and Danseband culture, which was commissioned by Rockheim, Norway's first rock 'n' roll museum. More photos, exhibits and a book in the works!

Rune Rudberg. Holjes, Sweden

Sunne, Sweden

Seljord, Norway

Larz Kristerz

Sel, Norway

Scandinavian Stickers

Danse Caravan

Swedish Flag

Sailorman

Sunne, Sweden

Danse Caravan

Bjorn's Orkester's Bus

Seljord, Norway

Larz Kristerz's bus

Ole Ivars Live

Face 84 fan

Tour Buses in Sel, Norway

Sel, Norway

Rune Rudberg

Lasse Stefanz

Swedish Hot Rod

Danseband Fan

Sunne, Sweden

Thorleifs bus

Destinations

Couple Dancing to Lasse Stefanz. Sunne, Sweden

TRUE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL

In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called black metal has emerged in Norway. Its roots stem from a heady blend of horror films, extreme heavy metal music, Satanism, pagan mythology, and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990's, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards. What started as a juvenile frenzy came to symbolize the start of a war against Christianity, a return to the worship of the ancient Norse gods, and the complete rejection of mainstream society. I spent seven years photographing this insulated and secretive community.

In 2008 Vice books published a large monograph entitled True Norwegian Black Metal

HOUSTON RAP

Houston Rap is an immersion into the everyday life of the Houston hip-hop community. This hardcover 272 page book features the photography of Peter Beste who spent 9 years documenting the culture alongside writer Lance Scott Walker. The book is edited by Johan Kugelberg who also worked with Peter on his previous book True Norwegian Black Metal (Vice) which to date has sold through 4 editions.

The Houston, Texas neighborhoods of Fifth Ward, Third Ward, and South Park have grown to be hallowed ground for modern hip hop culture, possessing self-contained celebrities, entrepreneurs, support networks, and a micro-economy of their own.

“We edited the book as a 24 hour glimpse into the culture,” says Johan Kugelberg. “We take you from the projects to the studio to the strip club and back, all along with an on-going oral history narrative from the people of the culture.” “We see it as an immersion,” says Peter Beste. “The idea was always to provide an insight into the community of the arguably most powerful hip-hop scene in the world today.”

Z-Ro. 2005

Dead End 7-11 & Macc Grace

South Park Salon. 2007

ESG Pourin' Up

Dope E out his bedroom window. 3rd Ward

C-Note of Botany Boys

Z-Ro in his kitchen

Klondike Kat in South Park.

Houston Kids. 2005

Ganxsta NIP in South Park. 2007

Pharoah of Street Military in prison

C-Note drives by in his hummer

Dominique & Mike D

Mike Jones on the Northside

Houston Rap Spread

Bun B 'Draped Up' video shoot. 2005

Mr. 3-2. Southside. 2005

3rd Ward storefront

Choice. 5th Ward. 2005

RIP HAWK

Trae Tha Truth live in Sam Bass Park. 2006

"Tiger Wood of the Hood" passersby. 4th Ward. 2005

Z-Ro's Breakfast

Guns n' Syrup. 2005

Scarface in South Acres. 2007

Ganxsta NIP in South Park. 2007

HAWK (RIP)

Duke of Herschelwood Hardheads

Willie D's Shadow. 5th Ward. 2011

Belmark & MLK

3rd & 5th Wards

G.R.I.T Boys. South Park

Paul Wall in South Park. 2006

K-Rino at Macgregor Park

Pimp C at Club Konnections

Princess Mafia with her sister. Club Konnections

Club Konnections Splits

Captain Jack at Max's Candy Shop

Max's Candy Shop

Club Konnections

Lil Troy & Strippers

Lil Flip Banner at Club Konnections

Bun B and Friends. Port Arthur, Tx. 2006

DJ Screw's nephew

UFO CULTURE

I am in the process of documenting UFO culture in the American West. Much more to come soon.

ECETI Ranch

Vendor at MUFON conference. Las Vegas, NV

Sedona in Infrared

Former director of MUFON (Mutal UFO Network) Las Vegas, NV.

UFO books

UFO Congress. Arizona

UFO Congress. Arizona

Night Vision Sky Watch. Joshua Tree

Roswell, NM

Tracking crafts with industrial strength laser pointer at ECETI Ranch

Giorgio Tsoukalos at Contact in the Desert. Joshua Tree, CA

ECETI Ranch

Norio Hayakawa in New Mexico

Erich Von Daniken's jacket

Travis Walton - UFO Abductee

Jim Marrs. Joshua Tree.

Dr. David Jacobs. MUFON conference. Las Vegas. 2013

Jim Marrs lecture at Contact in the Desert

Dr. Christian Von Lahr at work

Contact in the Desert Panel

UFO Abductee Travis Walton. Arizona 2011

UFO Fanzines

Linda Moulton Howe lecture at Contact in the Desert

Lloyd Pye & the Starchild Skull. 2012

Cosmic Highway. Colorado

Roswell, NM

ECETI sunset

ECETI stars

ECETI Orbs

Skywatch. Joshua Tree. 2014

Sedona in Infrared

LONDON GRIME

I spent a week photographing Grime crews, MC's and pirate radio stations in East London in 2005